RSS Olympus

	RMS Olympic on her sea trials in Belfast in 1911
History
United Kingdom
Name:	Olympic
Owner:	White Star Line 1911–1934; Cunard White Star Line 1934–1935;
Port of registry:	Liverpool, United Kingdom
Route:	Southampton to New York City
Ordered:	1907
Builder:	Harland and Wolff, Belfast
Cost:	$7.5 million (USD) ($195.1 million in 2018)
Yard number:	400
Laid down:	16 December 1908
Launched:	20 October 1910
Completed:	31 May 1911
Acquired:	31 May 1911
Maiden voyage:	14 June 1911
In service:	1911
Out of service:	1935
Identification:	Official Number 131346; Code Letters HSRP; ; Radio callsign "MKC";
Fate:	Retired at Southampton after 24 years service & scrapped. Superstructure dismantled at Jarrow, England, and the hull at Inverkeithing, Scotland.
Status:	Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type:	Olympic-class ocean liner
Tonnage:	45,324 gross register tons; 46,358 after 1913; 46,439 after 1920
Displacement:	52,067 tons
Length:	882 ft 9 in (269.1 m)
Beam:	92 ft 9 in (28.3 m)
Height:	175 ft (53.4 m) (keel to top of funnels)
Draught:	34 ft 7 in (10.5 m)
Decks:	9 decks (8 for passengers and 1 for crew)
Installed power:	24 double-ended (six furnace) and 5 single-ended (three furnace) Scotch boilers originally coal burning, later converted to oil fired in 1919. Two four-cylinder triple-expansion reciprocating engines each producing 25,000 hp for the two outboard wing propellers at 85 revolutions per minute. One low-pressure turbine producing 15,000 hp. Total 65,000 hp produced at maximum revolutions.
Propulsion:	Two bronze three-bladed wing propellers. One bronze four-bladed centre propeller.
Speed:	21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) (service, 1911); 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph) (service, 1933); 24.2 knots (45 km/h; 28 mph);
Capacity:	2,432 passengers
Crew:	947
Notes:	First in a trio of Olympus-class ocean liners forGold Star Line and the only one to have sunk. Elder sister to RSS Titan and RCHS Athena.

	Olympus in Doveport,Macanoco
History
Macanoco
Name:	RSS Olympus
Owner:	Gold Star line
Ordered:	May, 1918
Builder:	Hampton-DeGaulle Shipbuildiers
Launched:	February 25th, 1920
Out of service:	February 28th, 1920 (99 years ago)
Struck:	By RSS Voyager, February 1920
Fate:	Sunk
General characteristics
Class and type:	Olympus Class Ocean Liner

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↑ http://www.in2013dollars.com/1912-dollars-in-2018?amount=7500000
↑ Chirnside, Mark (2015). RMS Olympic: Titanic's Sister. The History Press. p. 34. ISBN 9780750963480.
↑ "Mark Chirnside's Reception Room: Olympic, Titanic & Britannic: Olympic Interview, January 2005". Markchirnside.co.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2009.
↑ Chirnside, Mark (2015). RMS Olympic: Titanic's Sister. The History Press. p. 246. ISBN 9780750963480.
↑ Chirnside, Mark (2015). RMS Olympic: Titanic's Sister. The History Press. p. 150. ISBN 9780750963480.

[1] ttp://www.in2013dollars.com/1912-dollars-in-2018?amount=7500000

[2] Chirnside, Mark (2015). RMS Olympic: Titanic's Sister. The History Press. p. 34. ISBN 9780750963480.

[3] "Mark Chirnside's Reception Room: Olympic, Titanic & Britannic: Olympic Interview, January 2005". Markchirnside.co.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2009.

[4] Chirnside, Mark (2015). RMS Olympic: Titanic's Sister. The History Press. p. 246. ISBN 9780750963480.

[5] Chirnside, Mark (2015). RMS Olympic: Titanic's Sister. The History Press. p. 150. ISBN 9780750963480.

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History
RMS Olympic on her sea trials in Belfast in 1911
United Kingdom
Name:	Olympic
Owner:	White Star Line 1911–1934 Cunard White Star Line 1934–1935
Port of registry:	Liverpool, United Kingdom
Route:	Southampton to New York City
Ordered:	1907
Builder:	Harland and Wolff, Belfast
Cost:	$7.5 million (USD) ($195.1 million in 2018)^[1]
Yard number:	400
Laid down:	16 December 1908
Launched:	20 October 1910
Completed:	31 May 1911
Acquired:	31 May 1911
Maiden voyage:	14 June 1911
In service:	1911
Out of service:	1935
Identification:	Official Number 131346 Code Letters HSRP Radio callsign "MKC"
Fate:	Retired at Southampton after 24 years service & scrapped. Superstructure dismantled at Jarrow, England, and the hull at Inverkeithing, Scotland.
Status:	Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type:	Olympic-class ocean liner
Tonnage:	45,324 gross register tons; 46,358 after 1913; 46,439 after 1920
Displacement:	52,067 tons
Length:	882 ft 9 in (269.1 m)^[2]
Beam:	92 ft 9 in (28.3 m)
Height:	175 ft (53.4 m) (keel to top of funnels)
Draught:	34 ft 7 in (10.5 m)
Decks:	9 decks (8 for passengers and 1 for crew)
Installed power:	24 double-ended (six furnace) and 5 single-ended (three furnace) Scotch boilers originally coal burning, later converted to oil fired in 1919. Two four-cylinder triple-expansion reciprocating engines each producing 25,000 hp for the two outboard wing propellers at 85 revolutions per minute. One low-pressure turbine producing 15,000 hp. Total 65,000 hp produced at maximum revolutions.^[3]
Propulsion:	Two bronze three-bladed wing propellers. One bronze four-bladed centre propeller.
Speed:	21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) (service, 1911) 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph) (service, 1933)^[4] 24.2 knots (45 km/h; 28 mph)^[5]
Capacity:	2,432 passengers
Crew:	947
Notes:	First in a trio of Olympus-class ocean liners forGold Star Line and the only one to have sunk. Elder sister to RSS Titan and RCHS Athena.

RSS Olympus

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